DOJ Ends Probe of Man Who Outed Bush-Era Wiretapping Program

That was the news confirmed on Tuesday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who told reporters it was dropping the investigation into a former Justice Department lawyer who leaked the existence of a warrantless wiretapping program started under the Bush administration. Click here for the WSJ story; here for the NYT story; here for the AP story; here for the story from Politico, which broke the news.

Tamm, now a lawyer in private practice in Maryland, called the New York Times in 2004 about the program. The paper won a Pulitzer Prize for its 2005 story about how the U.S. government had, without warrants, intercepted calls and emails into and out of the U.S.

Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Tuesday that the case had been reviewed by career prosecutors before the decision was made. “They look at these matters . . .

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